$500K Host Mike Siegel compares houses across the country in the $500,000 price range. We start in Louisville, Ky., where a former Civil War hospital gets made over into four stylish condos. Next we visit a spacious bachelor loft in Uptown Minneapolis that boasts easy access to the great outdoors. Then it's on to Austin, Texas, to meet a couple whose courtyard centered house reminded them of traditional homes in their native India. Finally we take a quick tour of three homes; a Delaware saltbox colonial with some hidden surprises, a Jackson, Miss., house with a distinctly European feel, and a flashy loft in downtown Des Moines.
